I am so sick of slow play

[nevets88]

I'm going to stop playing for the next months

But seriously, I can count the number of sub 5hr rounds I played this year on one hand. I play mostly at Bethpage, but long rounds in NJ and Westchester too.

If I could play a 4:15, 4 hour round, it would be heaven. Absolute heaven.

[golf_junkie27]

Sneak in a weekday afternoon round at Split Rock in the Bronx. A round of golf is now $25 including cart. (Don't know if you like to ride)

Anyway, I did this two weeks ago and played in less than four hours.

[Fat Slice]

Sneak in a weekday afternoon round at Split Rock in the Bronx. A round of golf is now $25 including cart. (Don't know if you like to ride)

My buddy and I knocked out a 3.5 hour round the other day...and the twosome in front of us left us in the dust!!! Midweek play is the only way to go.

[Want2PlayMore]

I echo what every one else says. If you play on the weekend, you have to know that the track is going to be full and the play is going to be really slow.

[meenman]

Join a private course and things will speed up considerably.

We played our front nine yesterday in 1:15, it was deeply disappointing to take a full 2 hours on the back nine.

[onamission]

in socali most round go for about 5 hours...

depending on where you go and when....
geez sometimes it just annoys me when the party in front of you practices putting a couple times before they hole out while 2 other gorups are waiting behind them....

[MSDOGS1976]

I'm retired and play at a small town CC. My group of guys play at 10:00am during the week and it rarely takes over 3 hours to play our round. And that is a foursome. I let the working guys have the course on weekends.

[Stacey_E]

Or do like me, play the worst goat track in town with a course rating. It wont be crowded, trust me. Also they are lax about starting on the front or the back. When I get out of the car I am always scoping the first couple tees and the greens on 8 & 9. If there is no log jam at the 10th & 11th tee then I'm gone to the back.

[nevets88]

Sneak in a weekday afternoon round at Split Rock in the Bronx. A round of golf is now $25 including cart. (Don't know if you like to ride)

I'll try this. I have played alot of weekday rounds - surprisingly, play was just as slow on the weekends.

[MO_Hacker]

I always play during the week, only way to go. There have been days when I didn't see another golfer until I got to the tee box on #9.

[Sandy Sammy]

Join a private course and things will speed up considerably.

The problem with the private courses, of which i'm a member, is I sometimes get stuck in the middle/at the tail end of compos or someone on the course is playing a 'proper match', this slows things up considerably as they will spend ages hunting for balls so as to not drop shots under compo rules.

and this tends to get worse at w/ends as my course holds compos in the w/ends.

[case31]

I always play during the week, only way to go. There have been days when I didn't see another golfer until I got to the tee box on #9.

A couple years ago I belonged to a public course that was on my way to work. For two summers I was able to tee off at 6AM, get nine in, be at work by 8:15 or so. Then, driving by on the way home I would scope out the parking lot and if it wasn't busy, squeeze in a second nine. After some heavy advertising by the course, the walk-on play picked up significantly and now you can't play 9 holes in less than 3 hours during the week, and if you try to play in the morning on the weekend, you better block off 6.5 hours (no joke).

As you would imagine, I don't play that course any more.

[MO_Hacker]

I've only played one round this summer that took more than 4.5 hours. One of the guys in the group thinks he's a freakin tour player, it took forever on every shot for him to hit it. I was fed up about 3 holes in, just hit the damn ball.

The worst part, after we got done he didn't even realize that it took 5 hours to play 18 holes.
End Rant

[rjfan91]

I grew up near Kansas City. I'd be glad you're still playing in November...

On topic, I played Shirkeys in Richmond a few times this summer on weekdays and it wasn't a speedy round....

I always play during the week, only way to go. There have been days when I didn't see another golfer until I got to the tee box on #9.

[tm22721]

Don't worry there is hope.

Golf membership dropped 95% in Japan in the past 18 years due to deteriorating economic conditions.

And we are following Japan's financial playbook EXACTLY.